Minutes of the General Assembly of the Nordic Fertility Society
held in Åre, Sweden, on 6th of January 2004
§ 1. The president of NFS, Johan Hazekamp, opened the meeting and welcomed the members.
§ 2. The General Assembly elected Claes Gottlieb to chair the meeting, Gabriel Fried for secretary, and Rita Kolvik and Karin Erb for auditors of the meeting.
§ 3. The minutes from the previous meeting and the agenda for the present meeting were accepted by the Society.
§ 4. Johan Hazekamp thanked the board and presented their annual report and also plans for future activities. The group formed in Helsingor to work with the NFS conference structure has put together a manual used to plan the present meeting. A new group will meet on the 26/1 to review and update the manual with experiences from this meeting.
Educational activities have been planned - an embryology course in the spring of 2005 is being arranged by the NFS. Furthermore, a course on counseling-nursing will hopefully be put together later this year.
A proposal was made to revise the NFS bylaws, since two members have left the board prematurely and the bylaws have to be changed to respond appropiately to such events. Suggestions will be put forward at the next meeting.
The plans presented in Helsingor to have a joint NFS meeting with the British Fertility society, will be postponed. Planning has taken longer, and will be continued.
Finally, a decision has been taken that NFS donate Dkr 25,000 to Medicine sans Frontiers, in response to the tragic catastrophy in Asia, approved by the general assembly.
§ 5. The treasurers report was presented by Julius Hreinsson. The economy of the society is good, and moving in a positive direction. The fee for the present conference was lowered as compared to Helsingor because of this. The board recommended unchanged membership fees. The assembly adopted the report and accounts.
§ 6. K-G Nygren presented the current status of the conference. The attendance was 567 persons - an all-time high. The expected late dropouts because of the Asia catastrophy did not happen. The attendants per category were 137 midwifes/nurses, 127 doctors, 119 lab and 93 industry. The final report will be published on the NFS website. Overall, the meeting was considered a success.
§ 7. The assembly elected a new president and board. The suggestion to reelect Johan Hazekamp was approved. The suggestion for the board was Embryologist Julius Hreinsson (SE) (re-elected), Laboratory assistant Berit Lippe (NO), Nurse Sigridur Thorsteinsdottir (ICE), Phycisian Eero Varila (FI), Secretary Suzanne Detvang (NO). The assembly approved and elected these to the new board. The new board thus consists of these six plus the presidents of the current and next conference, K-G Nygren and Christel Hyden-Granskog.
§ 8. The next conference site was presented by Christel Hyden-Granskog. It will be held in Espoo close to Helsinki, Finland, 2-6 August 2006.
§ 9. Johan Hazekamp thanked the resigning members from the previous board.
§10. No other business was raised.
§11. The chairman thanked the members present and closed the meeting.
Stockholm 7 January, 2005
Gabriel Fried, secretary
Claes Gottlieb, chairman
Rita Kolvik and Karin Erb, auditors
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